About this item
An Inconvenient Truth meets Thug Kitchen in this fresh, lavishly-designed cookbook featuring resources and recipes for healthy, Earth-friendly dishes. This gorgeous collection proves we can each help solve the world's major environmental problems simply by incorporating more plants into our diets--and shows us how. Featuring investigative reporting, compelling infographics, beautiful environmental photography, and essays from notable contributors like Michael Greger, MD, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Academy Award-winning director James Cameron, actor Jesse Eisenberg and famed chef Jos Andrs, Food Is the Solution will inspire us all to put more plants on our plates.
About the Author
Matthew Prescott is a leading figure in the global movement to reform how we farm and eat. Senior Director of Food Policy for The Humane Society of the United States and an advisor to the Good Food Institute, he's a sought-after speaker and thought leader who's spent over a decade and a half sharing his ideas with Ivy League universities, Fortune 500 companies, consumers, and more. His work has helped lead to sweeping changes in the supply chains of hundreds of major food companies, impacted countless individuals' diets, and has been covered extensively by the media: his work has been featured by CNN, in the pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and countless more; he's been published in FORTUNE, the Washington Post, Barron's and others; his photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone and Food & Wine; and he was even once a guest on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, the writer Lara Prescott.
